Agronomy Department and Course Weekly Update

November 6^{th, 2013}

You’ll know autumn is here when you see us sending out 2 tractor blowers, 2 pull-behind blowers daily and the course is still covered in leaves and pine straw.  The staff has been hard at work with daily maintenance of the golf course: mowing, blowing, edging, spraying weeds and repairing irrigation/drainage.  You will notice the wet spot in the 18^th fairway has been repaired this week and a new drain basin installed.  We have also hired Medalist Golf to do all of the grading and sodding work in the areas left from tree removal and thus will allow our staff to continue to focus on the smaller details around the course.  Once Medalist has completed the work, we will install the trees, shrubs and plant fine fescue.  A fertilizer and fungicide were applied to the greens today. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at kmacdonald@valleycrest.com and for more information follow us on Twitter @stivescc_vcsup and the Blog: http://vcgmstivescountryclub.blogspot.com/

See y’all on the course,

Kyle Macdonald, GCS, Class A